I'm wondering if I return an opened iPad would they check the serial number through the iPad to see if it matches the one on the box.
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Does Best Buy check serial for returns?
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If you plan to try something then you should feel bad. That is very unethical and to answer your question I have no idea
the post suggests that he/she tries to give back a different iPad than the one he bought. I can only come up with fraud as a reason for that. like giving back a broken iPad that is out of warranty and keep the working one. this looks to me like it is beyond a "little thing". this would be fraud so I think you should not encourage him/her.
all defects meet the same fate when they are returned.
if you are wanting them to honor a return then they need all ORIGINAL parts. HOWEVER if you want them to repair, they do not need the box. i dont know why so many of you keep boxes seriously.
anyway, if this ipad is a version they have never offered in store that could also be a problem. when they scan the receipt, if you have one, and the device it will show if the device was ever offered at the store cause it would be in the system.
if you are wanting them to honor a return then they need all ORIGINAL parts. HOWEVER if you want them to repair, they do not need the box. i dont know why so many of you keep boxes seriously.
anyway, if this ipad is a version they have never offered in store that could also be a problem. when they scan the receipt, if you have one, and the device it will show if the device was ever offered at the store cause it would be in the system.
Then why would you be concerned about the serial number???? If you bricked the iPad that actually CAME in that box, you wouldn't be asking this question.
Let's see you start backpedaling...
Why are you so afraid to do it the correct why as opposed to perpetrating fraud?
You know. Go into an Apple store and talk to a Genius or whatever they are and tell them your story as opposed to again, look like you are trying to perpetrate a scam.
The best would be that you got caught trying to scam them and they prosecuted for such. Nice fat rap sheet that would follow you around and maybe a bit of jail time to boot. Sweet deal...
I'm trying to return the iPad I bought a week ago to Best Buy. It's bricked, they can't check the serial to match it with the receipt/box, that's why I wanted to know if it was necessary. They don't need to know how it got bricked, or an explanation at all. This is not fraud.
You all are quite funny to me. You realize youre telling someone on the internet that they should be ashamed? They obviously do NOT care what you THINK. He asked a question and that should be the end of it. Again, he DOES NOT care what you think of what he is planning, or if you think he should be ashamed...move on and don't sweat the petty stuff...and don't pet the sweaty stuff.
Oh you must have gotten one of the self bricking iPads.
Universal translation: I screwed up the iPad and now it doesn't work. So if I just return it for a new one no one will ever know.
= Fraud
Nope, not even close to being fraud. Best Buy doesn't require an explanation as to why it's not working for a return.
Nonsense. If that were truly the case, you would have no need to come on here and ask shady questions.
Stores which sell electronics are used to returns on DOA items.
If your story was, in fact, true, and the serial number on the box matches the serial number of the iPad, you wouldn't be asking these questions. You would have already returned the iPad and said, "It doesn't work."
Scam.
You are so clueless... It's 8:30 at night and I'm not going to Best Buy until tomorrow, so I came here to ask. It looks like they need the serial number so I don't have to try and go through Apple.
Thanks for playing.
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